By Jeremy Gordon
on April 22, 2014 at 12:21 p.m. EDT

Back in 2004, then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama helped declare August 25 in Chicago as Frankie Knuckles Day. Now, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have written a letter to Knuckles' friends and family following the Chicago house legend's untimely death earlier this month from diabetes complications, as FACT reports.

By Carrie Battan
on August 13, 2013 at 11:57 a.m. EDT

Kendrick Lamar's verse on "Control" is so powerful that it's already inspired First Lady Michelle Obama to make a rap record. Just kidding-- that was a terrible joke. But in some of the oddest music news of the week, Michelle Obama actually has helped put together a hip-hop album.